SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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4. And be it enacted, That the parades as established by the
act to which this is a supplement, may be postponed by the com-
manding officer of the brigade, regiment or extra battalion as the
case may be, whenever in his opinion a sufficient cause should exist:
Provided, that the same hours shall he established, and the same
manner of notifying the postponement shall be followed as is direct-
ed in the seventh section of the act to which this is a supplement.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Parades may
be postponed.

5. And be it enacted, That any member of a court martial or
any other court created under this act, may adjourn the same from

time to time in case a sufficient number do not attend agreeably to
the provisions of said act.

Courts mart-

al.

6. And be it enacted, That the cavalry attached to the third C
brigade, shall parade on the second Tuesday instead of the first
Monday of October, as directed in the seventh section of the act to

which this is a supplement.

Cavalry.

7. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to raise and
keep up by voluntary enrollment from any part of the city of Balti-
more, two companies of volunteer infantry, to be composed, officered
as the volunteer infantry under the act to which this is a supple-
ment; and the same companies shall be attached to the fourteenth
brigade, and be entitled to all right and privileges which the volun-
teer infantry of the third brigade are entitled to by law; and shall
be attached by the brigadier-general to either of the present regi-
ments of the fourteenth brigade, and be governed in all respects by
this act and the act to which this is a supplement; and when the said
companies shall amount to four in number, it shall be the duty of the
brigadier-general to consolidate them into one battalion; and if a ma-
jority of companies shall determine to be attached to one of the pre-

sent regiments of said brigade, they shall be received into and form

Two compa-

nies of volun-

teer infantry—
rights &c.

part of the same: Provided, that the consent of the field officers be
first obtained, and the legal rights of no officers holding commissions
therein, be taken away or impaired, and other uniformed companies
under this act shall be attached to the same whenever it can be done
without deranging officers previously holding commissions; and
such regiment shall thereupon yield up a just proportion of its mili-
tia district as any of the said companies are attached to it; and in
case the consolidation cannot be effected as herein prescribed, then
the brigadier-general is hereby authorised and empowered to ap-
ply for commissions, and the governor and council are authorised
and required to issue the proper commissions, field and staff, for or-
ganising the said companies into an extra battalion or regiment, as
the case may be; and the said extra battalion or regiment shall as-
semble on the second Thursday in May, the second Thursday in
June, the twelfth of September and the first Thursday in October,
for the same purposes, at the same hour, under like penalties and in
the same manner as prescribed by law for other regiments of the
brigade, and be governed by and be subject to all the provisions of

the act to which this is a supplement.

Proviso.

8. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to raise and
keep up by enrollment from any part of the city of Baltimore, four
troops of cavalry to be attached to the fourteenth brigade, and com-
missions shall issue to the proper officers to command the same
whenever the brigadier-general shall report them mustered and
equiped according to law; and the said regiment shall assemble

Four troops.